Blame game

had attacked him with a knife at a constituency surgery.

In another MP’s office I worked in a colleague had to be physically scrubbed down by a team in hazmat suits after opening a letter containing what looked like anthrax.

It later turned out to be talcum powder and was part of a series sent to various MP’s offices, but it certainly wasn’t a good day for my colleague.

In recent years, Jo Cox and David Amess haven’t been as lucky in the threats against their lives.

The repeated, almost casual, reminders of violence against politicians I came across even in my short time in Parliament is a reminder that this isn’t always quite the cushy career we often consider it.

We all criticise politicians. We all think we can do better. Sometimes (even often) we’re right.

But when we start to look at them as a whole different breed of human beings from us, and consider behaviour we would normally never engage in as being acceptable, like Tarjanyi, we start the descent down an extremely slippery slope that ends in tragedy more often than we’re perhaps aware of.

the water is turning a light shade of green because I don’t get it cleaned regularly, the food in the restaurant is mediocre at best as I am not paying for a decent chef. The gardens are overgrown and the entrance has dirty bins which smell of decaying food from the kitchen. I do pay someone to clean them but don’t check to see if they have. Oh and by the way, we have groups of thieves who

THE British Benevolent Fund is one of the oldest charities in Spain for the British community. It was set up under the auspices of the embassy and with whom it still maintains a close relationship through the consular network.

Many people assume that the consulate have the financial resources to fund Britons in need and distress, which they do not. Instead the consulates look to partners, including the British Benevolent Fund across the country to step in when there are no other alternatives.

After Brexit there are many Britons who had been living in Spain who found themselves as not officially resident with no right to Spanish state support or healthcare.

For those who have health issues and no resources for private health care this increasingly means a return to the UK.

Many times, those returnees are alone with no family, elderly with health issues and no or limited resources.

Imagine the feeling.

It’s not a happy ending to a life lived in Spain.

The consulates do the heavy lifting of finding accommodation and ensuring that the per­

Let’s just remember that the tourists don’t pay the council to live here. Hopefully, they spend their money in the many businesses providing a living for the innumerable families who live from these. So indeed, Mijas as a whole may benefit, but those of us who have made it our home and pay our way don’t matter?

Maybe a little more time spent on looking after the tax payers and making it a beautiful place to live before inviting guests into our neglected hotel?